Time Warp is back!
WELCOME back to Time Warp! This much-loved column will be featured every week in Dubbo Photo News so please drop into our office where we can scan old photos you think might be of interest to the community.
Time Warp has always been an excellent way too, to put names to faces in your old vintage and classic photos that show snapshots of Dubbo life.
We’re relaunching Time Warp with a fantastic photo probably shot in the 1940s in a store on Talbragar Street, called Money-savers.
It’s been contributed by Mary Read, the granddaughter of former Dubbo businessman Vivian Charles Lark.
Mr Lark was the principal of Money-saver’s drapery and grocery store, supplying “frocks, millinery, dress materials, handbags, hosiery for women and suits, sportswear, mercery, etc, for men”, an old advertorial says.
It also said: “Here is to be found an array of goods that will enable the most fastidious buyer to obtain high quality goods at very keen prices. Here is it possible to obtain those important little nic-nacs that every women needs to harmonise with her ensemble.
“And while she is there, she can inspect the wide range of dress materials in all the smartest shades and designs.
“Mr Lark is ably assisted in the management of the business by Mrs Lark.
“Mr Lark is well known
in public affairs in Dubbo. A member of the 1st A.I.F., he has done much to help along the progress of Dubbo in his capacity of committeeman of the Dubbo District Ambulance. Mr Lark is also a keen bowler.
“The grocery section of Money-saver’s is stocked with every conceivable commodity for the culinary department of the home, and a reliable delivery service is maintained.
Do you know which building on Talbragar Street used to be Money-savers?